Huge Ice Shelf "Hanging By a Thread"

[garybeck]

(CNN) -- Some 220 square miles of ice has collapsed in Antarctica and an ice shelf about the size of Connecticut is "hanging by a thread," the British Antarctic Survey said Tuesday, blaming global warming.




http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/03/25/antarctic.ice/index.html

[Poll_Blind]

1. Correction, hanging by a piece of rapidly-melting ice. This world is sick.

We are not the disease. Our diseased actions are the disease.

PB

[Up2Late]

2. Wow, that's not good, did you see where that is on the map?

It's nearly at the very base of the Antarctic Peninsula!

Has Larson C broken up yet? I know Larson A and B are gone.

[Kazak]

3. Link?

I'd like to see what you mean...

[Up2Late]

4. It's on the CNN "explainer" tab...

...it's that little red dot on the left side of the peninsula:

<http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/03/25/antarctic.ice/index.html#cnnSTCOther1>

[Octafish]

5. The thread isn't holding on to anything...

... going by the buckled appearance of the ice to the seaward side of the crack.

We need to start thinking big to get out of the global mess Bush and his greedy friends have created.